Donna Martin's 5-Day Intensive Psoma Yoga™ Therapy offers an innovative approach towards the integration of mind, body, and spirit through embodied practices and somatic mindfulness. This is the first time Donna brings Psoma Yoga Therapy™ intensive training to Asia.

Each day is carefully designed to provide participants with experiential introductions and practical tools to cultivate self-awareness, healing, and wholeness.

Psoma Yoga Therapy™ offers an integration of several modalities - especially Hakomi and Yoga. Soma comes from the Greek for body. Ps (psyche) comes from the Greek for mind/spirit. So “Psoma” yoga is Donna's way of naming this integrated body/mind/spirit approach.

There are three main applications of Psoma yoga:

• as a personal practice for self-awareness and stress management;
• as a way of offering a group an embodied learning experience;
• as a way to work with someone else to support their healing journey.

Donna Martin, the founder of Psoma Yoga Therapy™ will introduce Psoma Yoga Therapy™ as a method to assist your understanding in somatic mindfulness, body movement and embodied healing. Donna will also share some core concepts and practices of Psoma Yoga Therapy™ for practical application in your practice or teaching.

Course Key Content

Day 1
Participants will embark on an experiential introduction to "psoma" and the principles of mind/body/spirit unity. You will explore healing as wholeness happening and delve into the power of consciousness. Through embodied practices, such as yoga-based mindfulness, you will learn to cultivate presence for self and others while becoming aware of habitual patterns and exploring new possibilities.

Day 2
The focus shifts to the Hakomi method of self-study using embodied mindfulness. Participants will learn about "loving presence" towards oneself and others and how to adopt an experimental attitude to uncover habitual mind/body experiences.

Day 3
An experiential introduction to Psoma Yoga as a form of therapy. You will learn how to assist each other in discovering old patterns and embracing new possibilities. The session will also explore the relationship between somatic practices, psychological structures, and core beliefs, with Donna's demonstrations of Psoma Yoga Therapy™.

Day 4
Participants will be invited to engage in healing as a journey of unfolding wholeness. They will learn skillful ways to support each other, with further discussion, and demonstrations of Psoma Yoga Therapy™.

Day 5
Introduce the comprehensive review of the three phases of Psoma Yoga Therapy™: Presence, Play, and Possibility. Through experiential integration and completion exercises, participants will solidify their learning and leave equipped with practical tools for personal growth and healing.

Suitable for

Open for all levels of yoga practitioners, somatic partitioners and anyone who would like to integrate Hakomi method and Psoma Yoga Therapy™ to facilitate a more embodied healing experience in or support their own or another's transformation.

Daily Schedule

9:00 - 12:00 Morning session
12:00 -14:00 Lunch break
14:00 -17:00 Afternoon session

Donna Martin's background reflects a lifelong commitment to studying, imbibing and sharing the vast field of knowledge and practice known as yoga. After receiving degrees in philosophy from Georgetown and Fordham Universities in the United States, and teaching philosophy at college level for several years, Doug pursued his “post-graduate” education in the practical experience of yoga at the Siddha meditation ashram, Gurudev Siddha Peeth, in India, for seven years, and spent a total of 14 years doing service, practicing, training in and teaching yoga in Siddha meditation ashrams worldwide.

He received intensive training in the Iyengar system in New York City, practiced Ashtanga Vinyasa yoga in India, and became one of the first certified Anusara yoga teachers, producing three highly respected books on asana, pranayama and yoga philosophy. His work has since taken him beyond the confines of the Anusara system. Doug's further expansion in learning is reflected in his latest and most in-depth work, “Yoga as Therapy”, which is one of the most comprehensive, innovative and useful treatments of the structural aspect of yoga therapy available.

Doug's teaching is rooted in a vast and inclusive perspective of study and practice that honors the insights of the many streams of wisdom that flow into the river of yoga. A regular columnist for Yoga+ Magazine, writing the “Asana Solutions” column that addresses specific therapeutic problems, Doug is a ERYT500 with Yoga Alliance and a member of the International Association of Yoga Therapists.

2024 Nov 2nd - Nov 6th Donna Martin

Embodied Healing: Psoma Yoga Therapy™ Intensive Training

5-Day Immersion

Identity	Early Bird Price Register till Sep. 11th	Pre-training Price Register till ~Oct. 2nd	Regular Price
SPACE members/ SPACE WS and TT Graduates / Hakomi attendants*	NT$ 24,380	NT$ 25,300	NT$ 28,500
Non-SPACE members	NT$ 25,800	NT$ 27,000

Nov 2nd - Nov 3rd 2-day package

Identity	Early Bird Price Register till Sep. 11th	Pre-training Price Register till ~Oct. 2nd	Regular Price
SPACE members/ SPACE WS and TT Graduates / Hakomi attendants* / Online attendants	NT$ 10,080	NT$ 10,500	NT$ 11,800
Non-SPACE members	NT$ 10,680	NT$ 11,200

• Hakomi attendants referred to students who attended Hakomi Education Network (Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan)

Notes :

• Event Location: SPACE YOGA An-Ho studio
• Minimum number of registrations to hold the course: 25 students.
• Depending on the teacher’s discretion, students may sound record, take video or photos (no flash) for personal use as long as it is not distracting, but please do not post videos on public platforms (such as Facebook, YouTube, etc).
• The organizer reserves the right to modify the method, content and precautions of this event, and has the right to decide to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend this event, and retain the right of final interpretation.
• SPACE YOGA will video record and photograph the training for our records and promotion purposes.